Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Clyde's Columbia To Renovate, Close For 8 Weeks

The Columbia Clyde's will get a full renovation starting in January -- more of the changes coming to the Columbia waterfront, reports Luke Lavoie in the Sun.

The restaurant re-upped a new 10-year lease, so they're doing cosmetic and structural improvements. They'll close during the renovations, probably for about eight weeks. This is part of many changes coming to down Columbia, and Wordbones has the broader real estate view on Tales of Two Cities.

6 comments:

Jim
said...

None of the sources say whether Tomato Palace will be closed for all or part of the time. I personally talked to a manager of Tomato Palace a couple months ago and asked if they will be getting any updates when Clydes was remodeling and he said yes, but he never mentioned shutting down. I assume since right now they both share the same bathrooms, they will have to close down while that work is going on at least.

I hope they improve the food at Clydes along with the remodeling. Last time there, I ordered the onion soup and was disappointed to find they had burned the onions. The artichoke & crab dip was just weird - it had large chunks (like 1/2 to whole) of artichoke hearts in it and was luke warm.

I'll wait to see how others like the remodeled version before returning.

Are they going to try to figure out how to cram more tables in there? Maybe stack them on top of each other like bunk beds? My wife and I had to leave when they crammed us into a tiny little spot. We couldn't hear each other from the noise and I was bumping elbows with folks on my left and right. When a waiter hadn't arrived after 5 minutes of waiting, we decided to leave.